My New Amish Friends
So this past weekend I was in Aylmer for a bit playing Uncle Will. Good times as always. One thing that I had wanted to do for a while was visit Pathway Publishers, an Amish printing house and bookstore. I've wanted to visit it for quite a while, but I'm almost never in Aylmer during business hours during the week.
My main reason for visiting, was to talk to the owner, who is an avid Mennonite historian, and has wanted to talk to me about the play I wrote quite a while ago. He wasn't in when I got there, so I thought I'd look around and see what the store carried. They have a lot of home schooling stuff, and lots of family bible study type stuff, none of which was interesting to me. The section that fascinated me was the one with the Bibles, commentaries etc. While I didn't have use for a parallel Greek-English (King James) Bible, I might later. I saw a German copy of the Martyr's Mirror for 29.50, which peaked my interest. An English copy in Waterloo, runs for $65. Of course none of my worldly plastic methods of payment were accepted at this store, so I could only use the slightly more than $20 that I had with me. I then saw the Complete Writings of Menno Simons. I first leafed through it to see how good a quality it was. It had everything that I was looking for, so I braced myself and looked at the price label. A slightly different version of this book sells for over $90 in Waterloo at either Mennonite book store. The price, written in pencil on the inside cover, a regular price, not a sale price, was 19.50. I don't know how they can print it for that much cheaper, and you know what, I don't care. I bought the book, and I will return, when I have enough money for a Martyr's Mirror, which is 32.50 for the English.

   [ posted by William @ 10:04 PM ]